# Lynley Anderson

Lynley Carol Anderson is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in bioethics in health care education and sports and sports healthcare provision.

## Academic career

Anderson completed a Master of Health Science with a thesis titled Knowledge and power in the clinical setting at the University of Otago in 1998. She followed this with a PhD, also at Otago, titled Stress fractures: ethics and the provision of sports medicine at the elite level in New Zealand. Anderson then joined the faculty of the University of Otago, rising to associate professor in 2016 and full professor in 2022. Since 2017 Anderson has been the Head of the Bioethics Centre at the university. She has been chair of the Health Research Council Ethics Committee and the Ethics Committee for Assisted Reproductive Technology.
Anderson's research covers ethics in sports and sports health care. A 2019 paper by Anderson and colleagues Alison Heather and Taryn Knox examined the issue of trans women in elite sport, and argued that trans women had a physiological advantage over other women, and that the gender binary of sports should be changed to 'a more nuanced approach'. Anderson also researched the ethics of sending athletes to compete during a pandemic. Anderson is also interested in ethical issues faced by medical and healthcare students, and has written codes of ethics for the New Zealand Physiotherapy Board and the Sports Physiotherapy Special Interest Group. She was part of a team that developed an informed consent statement for the involvement of medical students in patient care, published in 2023.

## Selected works

* Taryn Knox; Lynley C Anderson; Alison Heather (19 June 2019). "Transwomen in elite sport: scientific and ethical considerations". Journal of Medical Ethics. 45 (6): 395–403. doi:10.1136/MEDETHICS-2018-105208. ISSN 0306-6800. PMID 31217230. Wikidata Q92883364.
* Osman Hassan Ahmed; Stephen John Sullivan; Anthony G. Schneiders; Lynley Anderson; Chris Paton; Paul R McCrory (1 April 2013). "Ethical considerations in using Facebook for health care support: a case study using concussion management". Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 5 (4): 328–334. doi:10.1016/J.PMRJ.2013.03.007. ISSN 1934-1482. PMID 23622785. Wikidata Q51466489.
* Hamish Osborne; Lynley Anderson; Peter Burt; Mark Young; David Gerrard (23 December 2015). "Australasian College of Sports Physicians-position statement: the place of mesenchymal stem/stromal cell therapies in sport and exercise medicine". British Journal of Sports Medicine. 50 (20): 1237–1244. doi:10.1136/BJSPORTS-2015-095711. ISSN 0306-3674. PMID 26701927. Wikidata Q38678597.
* Peter Crampton; Tim Wilkinson; Lynley Anderson; Sue Walthert; Hamish Wilson (30 October 2015). "Bullying in health care settings: time for a whole-of-system response". The New Zealand Medical Journal. 128 (1424): 10–13. ISSN 0028-8446. PMID 26922442. Wikidata Q53164624.
* Michael McNamee; Bradley Partridge; Lynley Anderson (24 November 2015). "Concussion Ethics and Sports Medicine". Clinics in Sports Medicine. 35 (2): 257–267. doi:10.1016/J.CSM.2015.10.008. ISSN 0278-5919. PMID 26832975. Wikidata Q38718742.
* Jean Hay-Smith; Melanie Brown; Lynley Anderson; Gareth Treharne (9 August 2016). "Once a clinician, always a clinician: a systematic review to develop a typology of clinician-researcher dual-role experiences in health research with patient-participants". BMC Medical Research Methodology. 16: 95. doi:10.1186/S12874-016-0203-6. ISSN 1471-2288. PMC 4977678. PMID 27506386. Wikidata Q36099338.
* Lynley Anderson (21 April 2011). "Bloodgate: were the punishments fair?". British Journal of Sports Medicine. 45 (12): 948–949. doi:10.1136/BJSM.2011.083881. ISSN 0306-3674. PMID 21511739. Wikidata Q48686022.
* Warwick Bagg; John Adams; Lynley Anderson; et al. (15 May 2015). "Medical Students and informed consent: A consensus statement prepared by the Faculties of Medical and Health Science of the Universities of Auckland and Otago, Chief Medical Officers of District Health Boards, New Zealand Medical Students' Association and the Medical Council of New Zealand". The New Zealand Medical Journal. 128 (1414): 27–35. ISSN 0028-8446. PMID 26117388. Wikidata Q48023457.